Thirteen years since the start of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a comprehensive evaluation finds rivers, wetlands and lakes are in far better shape.

Rainfall has been scarce across Australia, leading to severe drought conditions in agricultural regions, especially in South Australia, Western Australia, and south-western Victoria. Farmers in these ...

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has released the 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation assessing the achievements and lessons learned from the 13-years ...

Knowing the ‘next drought is just around the corner’, Australia’s Water Minister Tanya Plibersek is striking a new agreement to return water and health to the Murray-Darling Basin.

The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) has said the recently released 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation portrays a deliberately ...

Floodplain vegetation has been damaged, the river channel has been re-engineered, and pest plants and animals have been introduced. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan was established in 2012.

Schwabe’s fellowship will return him the Murray-Darling basin, where he has done work as environmental economist periodically for 16 years. Schwabe and his family will be staying in coastal city of ...

CANBERRA, July 10 (Reuters) - The drought in Australia's main food growing region of the Murray-Darling river system has worsened with the driest June on record, the head of the g ...

Victoria, the final state to sign a water bill that allows the Commonwealth to manage the river basin waterways, finally consented. According to the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC), the bill ...

Influential lawmakers want farmers to abandon marginal irrigation lands in the food bowl Murray-Darling river basin, which sprawls across three eastern states, and break new ground in the remote ...

The draft plan was unveiled on Oct. 8 by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), the agency that monitors the basin. It proposes reduction of water entitlements in the region by 3,000 to 4,000 ...

Drought and climate change are driving high water prices in the Murray-Darling Basin Neal Hughes, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) ...